2015 School on the European Union European Union in the Face of
2015 School on the European Union European Union in the Face of New Challenges Getulio Vargas Foundation – Praia de Botafogo, room 306 (Tuesaday) / 307 (Wednesday) Rio de Janeiro, May 12th-13th, 2015 Scholars: Ton Dassen (Master, Eindhoven University of Technology) is program manager, since 2007, at Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, since 2005. From 1998 to 2005 he was a Senior Researcher at National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, and researcher, from 1991 to 1998 at the National Aerospace Laboratory. He is author of: “Smart about Cities: visualizing the challenge for 21st century urbanism”, PBL, 2014. “The Sustainable City: An Analytical–Deliberative Approach to Assess Policy in the Context of Sustainable Urban Development”, PBL, 2012. “Assessment of the Human Environment 2012”, PBL, 2012. Thanos Dokos (PhD, Cambridge University) is the DirectorGeneral of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He has held research posts at the Hessische Stiftung Friedens und Konfliktforschung (1989-90) and the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA) at Harvard University (1990-91). He served as the Director for Research, Strategic Studies Division, Hellenic Ministry of National Defense (1996-98) and as an Advisor on NATO issues to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998-1999). He was a NATO research fellow for 1996-98. He has taught at the University of Athens and the University of Piraeus, the Hellenic National Defense College, the Diplomatic Academy and the Hellenic National Security School. His recent publications include: “Energy developments and Greek foreign policy” (with Theodore Tsakiris), ELIAMEP Policy Papers, Athens, February 2012. “The difficult relationship between accounting and geopolitics”, Europe’s World, April, 2013. “Greece can still be a geopolitical asset for the EU’, Europe’s World, summer, 2013. Miriam Saraiva (PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) is professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She was coordinator of the Rio de Janeiro State University’s Graduate Program in International Affairs (2009-2012). She was Co-chair of the EU-Latin American Section of the Latin American Studies Association (2009-2012). In 2013 she was appointed as the first Rio Branco Chair in International Relations in the University of Oxford, where she carried out a research on Strategies and Partnerships for Brazil in a Changing Global Order: the Place of the European Union'. Her main research interests include Brazilian Foreign Policy, Mercosur and Brazil-Argentina relations, European Foreign Policy and South American integration. Her most recent publications includes: “Brasil, América Laatina e a União Europeia diante de novas agendas globais” In: Fundação Konrad Adenauer. (Org.). A União Europeia alargada em tempos de novos desafios. 1ed.Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Konrad Adenauer, 2015, v. 4, p. 153-162. “Emerging powers in the network order: the case of Brazil” (with Daniel Flemes) Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, v. 57, p. 214-232, 2014. “Encontros e desencontros: o lugar da Argentina na política externa brasileira” 1ª ed. Belo Horizonte: Fino Traço, 2012. David Spence (PhD, Sciences-Po) is a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics. Until 2011, he was Minister Counsellor with special responsibility for human security and disarmament at the European Union delegation to the United Nations in Geneva. Until 2003, he was the Commission representative in the G8 and EU Council Terrorism Working Groups. In 2006, Dr. Spence was seconded by the European Commission as senior political advisor to the Special Representative of the United Nations for the Elections in the Ivory Coast. His most recent publications are: Days of Dogs and Roses: the European Commission between foreign policy and external relations in Revue des Affaires européennes, Fundación Dialnet, 2009-2010/1. Deconstructing EU Governance: how the European Commission constructed EU governance policy and how it attempts to export it in J. Wunnerlich and D. Bailey, The EU and Global Governance, Routledge, 2011. The Early Days of the European External Action Service: A Practitioner’s View, Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 2012.
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